MS in Biomedical Engineering

From advances in chemotherapy to innovative prosthetics, medical technology continues to advance, giving patients new options for living healthier, longer lives. Thousands of technological breakthroughs are the result of biomedical engineers rising to meet the needs of medical professionals and the communities they serve. Students interested in this exciting career can find advanced knowledge and experience through one of Florida Tech’s biomedical engineering graduate programs. Whether you want a career in medicine or in the rapidly growing biotechnology industry, an advanced degree from Florida Tech ensures academic choices, entrepreneurship options, and practice partnerships.

A Focus on Field Study

Providing new opportunities to blend science and engineering to solve complex medical challenges, Florida Tech’s biomedical engineering graduate programs keep students on the leading edge of what is happening in the medical community. The university is located in a rapidly growing healthcare region that includes hospitals, health centers, research laboratories, and institutes, providing countless opportunities for advanced laboratory research and mentorship with medical professionals. Students work hands-on with physicians and technicians at several locations, including:

• Health First Hospitals
• Cancer Care Center of Brevard
• The Eye Institute
• The Back Center
• Medical City—Orlando (UCF College of Medicine, Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, MD Anderson Cancer Research Institute, and more)

Why Pursue a Master's In Biomedical Engineering at Florida Tech?

As one of the top biomedical engineering schools, Florida Tech’s individualized academic choices allows students to customize their learning in a way that best suits their career goals. Graduate students experience one-on-one guidance from professors and industry experts from interdisciplinary backgrounds to create a comprehensive and engaging learning environment.

Experienced, World-Class Faculty

The biomedical engineering graduate programs at Florida Tech are comprised of professors who teach and conduct research with students and other faculty, both from the university and around the world. Many faculty members are involved in research related to biomedical engineering and are experts in mechanical and aerospace engineering, chemical engineering, electrical and computer engineering, and computer science.

Joining these professors are medical doctors who guide students during their research while completing research of their own. Medical doctors give students valuable industry experience and combine the benefits of both traditional academic faculty and industry professionals. This mix of traditional academic faculty and industry professionals ensures that students receive the most up-to-date industry research and developments.

Build Professional Relationships

Beyond the classroom, students participate in academic organizations like Tau Beta Pi (the engineering honor society), the Premed Club (campus chapter of the American Medical Student Association), athletics, and over 100 other campus-wide student organizations.

An Ideal Location for a Biomedical Engineering School

Florida Tech is located in the heart of Florida’s Space Coast, which puts the 130-acre campus in the middle of the nation’s fifth-largest high-tech workforce and over 5,000 high-tech companies, providing valuable internships and employment opportunities. The area boasts year-round beautiful weather, 72 miles of Atlantic Coast beaches, the Indian River Lagoon (the most diverse estuary in North America), and close proximity to NASA Kennedy Space Center and Orlando attractions.

What Biomedical Engineering Research or other Opportunities Can I Expect?

Biomedical engineering internships with Florida Tech take place at medical centers and hospitals around Brevard County. Coupled with advanced engineering principles, students work side-by-side with doctors and medical professionals to stay on the leading edge of industry advancements. While completing biomedical engineering internships, graduate and Ph.D. students discover potential career paths and develop professional relationships that could lead to employment.

It All Started With 37 Cents

Florida Tech was founded in 1958 as "Brevard Engineering College." It all started as an idea in the mind of Jerome P. Keuper, a visionary physicist working at Cape Canaveral.

As university lore would have it, Keuper expressed his desire to create a scientific and technological university to a friend over drinks at a local pub. Overhearing the conversation, a fellow patron pushed 37 cents in change across the bar and said, “There’s your first donation, Jerry. Now, go and build that college.”

So, Keuper did. And what started with 37 cents as a night school for the early “missilemen” of the U.S. space program is now a comprehensive national research university recognized worldwide for excellence in preparing students for careers of the future.

Core Values

• Research for the Benefit of All Humankind
• Education for a Lifetime of Success
• Global Citizenship for a Better World

Mission Statement

Florida Institute of Technology’s mission is to provide high-quality education to a culturally diverse student body in order to prepare students for entering the global workforce, seeking higher-education opportunities, and serving within their communities. The university also seeks to expand knowledge through basic and applied research and to serve the diverse economic, cultural, and societal needs of our local, state, national and international constituencies.

In support of this mission, we are committed to:

• Promoting student development by fostering and sustaining a productive institutional culture of assessment that leads to the continuous improvement of academic and administrative programs
• Developing an organizational culture that values and encourages intellectual curiosity, a sense of belonging and shared purpose among faculty, students, and staff, and the pursuit of excellence in all endeavors
• Recruiting and developing excellent faculty to become leaders in their respective fields and internationally recognized scholars
• Achieving recognition as an effective, innovative, technology-focused educational and research institution
• Recruiting and retaining an excellent, highly select, and culturally diverse student body
• Continually improving the quality of campus life for all members of the university community
• Providing personal and career growth opportunities for both traditional and nontraditional students and members of the faculty and staff
• Securing and maintaining professional accreditation for all appropriate programs

We Are Florida Tech

What we are is a private, coeducational, residential, research-intensive, doctoral-granting university located in Melbourne on Florida’s sunny “Space Coast.” But who we are is so much more. We are a community of researchers, scholars, and learners hailing from all around the world. We are engineers, aviators, innovators, leaders, educators, athletes, and astronauts. We have the brains of rocket scientists and the hearts of Panthers. We are Florida Tech.

We Are Relentless

Florida Tech is a university of leaders and learners—a diverse community of students, staff, faculty, and alumni who are united in the relentless pursuit of greatness.

We Are International

Students from more than 90 countries worldwide choose to live and learn at Florida Tech, making us a truly global university. When we say #YouAreWelcomeHere, we mean it.

We Create The Future

One of the primary tenets of Florida Tech’s mission is advancing science and technology for the benefit of Earth and all of its inhabitants. So, that’s what we do.

We Have Panther Pride

You may feel it the first time you visit the campus, the day you graduate, or at some point in between. But when you do, you’ll see that Panther Pride is more than school spirit. It’s a family.

We Make Connections

Florida Tech is proud to be part of the Brevard County community and welcomes its neighbors to explore the many personal, professional, corporate, and cultural opportunities we have to offer.

We Are STEM

There's a reason Florida Tech is known as Florida's STEM University™. To put it simply: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math are in our DNA. This makes STEM a driving force behind who we are, what we do, and why we exist.